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The cure for our broken political process : how we can get our politicians to resolve the issues tearing our country apart
- Title
- The cure for our broken political process : how we can get our politicians to resolve the issues tearing our country apart / Sol Erdman & Lawrence Susskind.
- Author
- Erdman, Sol.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2008.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-667 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Susskind, Lawrence.
- Description
- vi, 210 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.
- Contents
- Politics at its best -- How do outsiders solve problems that politicians won't? -- How to resolve any issue-as well as humanly possible -- Could politicians negotiate the best solutions? -- Why our lawmakers betray us -- Each lawmaker's predicament : whom do I represent? -- How did American politics get so dysfunctional? -- Each district as diverse as the whole United States -- Why do most voters feel so powerless? -- While most of us sleep, Congress does its worst -- Does the current system threaten our survival? -- Big changes can happen -- How to get politicians we can believe in -- Make each representative accountable-- for real -- How ideologically diverse do we want our politicians to be? -- Cementing the bond between citizens and lawmakers -- Answering skeptics -- How America could reach consensus -- Practical first steps -- A decade from now : our rejuvenated democracy.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-667
- ISBN
- 9781597972697 (alk. paper)
- 159797269X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008020945
- OCLC
- 228503210
- vendorOCN228503210
- Author
- Erdman, Sol.
- Title
- The cure for our broken political process : how we can get our politicians to resolve the issues tearing our country apart / Sol Erdman & Lawrence Susskind.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.
- Added Author
- Susskind, Lawrence.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-667